Keywords

Architectural idioms (or styles) 		Interface definition languages

Architectural design rules       		Partial specification

Composability                    		Program slicing

Components                       		Protocol specifications

Concurrent and distributed systems		Reverse engineering

Connectors                       		Semantic match

Dataflow dependencies            		Signature matching

Designer's associate             		Software architecture

Formal methods                   		Software analysis

Formal specifications            		Software frameworks

Heterogeneous architectures      		Specification matching

Interoperability                 		Tractable representations

Interface specifications